Many years ago, when she was still a teenager, Paramahansaji remarked to her: “Someday, you will have many, many to train.” Though she was understandably startled at the time (being very new on the path herself), thousands over the years have been blessed by the fulfillment of the Guru’s farseeing prophecy. To monastics and lay members alike, Mrinalini Mata imparted encouragement that patient striving—in one’s meditations and daily efforts to change oneself—is vital to spiritual progress, as is faith in God and Guru and in the soul’s divine potential. How often she inspired devotees to see that unlimited potential within themselves and to manifest it in their own lives.
She said: “No one but you has made you what you are at this moment. God did not interfere with what you were creating by your free will. And no other human being dictated what you are. You are today what you yourself have created by your right or wrong actions and thoughts and motives and desires. And if we have made our destiny, then we also have the power to change our destiny. Sri Yukteswarji said: ‘Everything in future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now.’ If there is one point above all that I would impress on you, it is that point of conscious spiritual effort—the non-acceptance of any imperfection or limitation in your life.”
https://yssofindia.org/about/sri-mrinalini-mata-a-channel-of-the-guru-love-and-wisdomAlways anchored in the consciousness of God, Sri Mrinalini Mata offered this advice to devotees:
“Any person who has truly experienced even a brief glimpse of God can never again be the same—can never again be satisfied with limited worldly consciousness as before. You do not cease to enjoy the world or its wholesome pleasures; there is just a turning of the awareness from the outer side to the inner side of reality. Instead of being identified with physical forms and limitations, attachments and desires, likes and dislikes, joys and sorrows, you see all of life as an expression of God. You perceive everything as made out of His infinite light and consciousness. You enjoy the love and companionship of your family because you feel flowing through you His love, which He has given you to love that family. In the love you in turn receive from them, you feel not just a selfish, physical, limited human emotion but that infinite love of the Divine. When you look at a rose, or the myriad beautiful things that God has created, you see behind the beauty of the petals the infinite light and consciousness of the Creator who has made and who sustains that beauty.
“No matter what experiences you go through externally, or what lessons you are learning through those experiences, let the consciousness always be centered on that one Reality—the one thing that will never fail you, that will never change, that is eternal—God, and your relationship with Him.”
